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Acheloos () is a former
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the Karditsa regional unit,
Thessaly Thessaly ( ; ; ancient Aeolic Greek#Thessalian, Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic regions of Greece, geographic and modern administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient Thessaly, a ...
,
Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argithea, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 87.430 km2. It is named after the
Acheloos River The Achelous (, ''Akhelôios''), also Acheloos, is a river in Epirus (region), Epirus, western Greece. It is long. It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea. In ancient times its spirit ...
. Population 913 (2021). The seat of the municipality was in Vragkiana.


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Populated places in Karditsa (regional unit) Argithea {{Thessaly-geo-stub el:Δήμος Αργιθέας#Αχελώου